River & Rail Theatre Company – Pass Over Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu opened on Broadway in the first week of August, becoming the first new play to begin performances since the Covid-19 shutdown darkened theatres in New York City.…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: The Fall Season Begins with September’s First Friday
As we anxiously await the residual effects of Ida here in Knoxville, we are similarly on pins and needles over the 2021 Fall Season, trying to balance the essential safety precautions with the need to get on with life in…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: Fourth of July Weekend 2021 and First Friday
This coming Fourth of July Weekend—and the entire summer, for that matter—is proving to be one of recovery from our year of making-do, biding time, and hoping for better times ahead. Theatre and music organizations have been announcing plans and…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: UT Downtown Gallery, Emporium Center, Knoxville Children’s Theatre, Knoxville Opera
Marble City Opera Sells Out Its Three-Performance Run of Tosca In what has to be a show of both audience hunger for music and theatre, and optimism for a reinvigorated arts scene in Knoxville, Marble City Opera has indicated that…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: May 18, 2021
In the middle of May in any normal year, the arts season would be winding down with the pomp and circumstance of finale concerts and exhibitions attracting those surrendering to bare arms, summer colors, and a hiatus until September. Truly,…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: First Friday At The Emporium, Domino Ensemble, UT Downtown Gallery, Knoxville Children’s Theatre
First Friday Openings at the Emporium May Exhibitions run May 7-28 The Professional Photographers of East Tennessee: Different Together A Celebration of Watercolor by the Knoxville Watercolor Society Larry Cole: The Color of Light Sonja Oswalt: Skin Deep – Portraits…
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: April 2021 Exhibition Openings
All locations mentioned below ask that you wear a mask and practice social distancing while in their facility. •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  •  …
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: March 23 – KSO, Knoxville Opera, Emporium, UT Downtown Gallery
Having gorged ourselves on Birthday cake for Johann Sebastian Bach’s 336th and enjoyed a boatload of streamings from Leipzig, it is time to jump in and enjoy what Knoxville’s spring has in store this week. •  •  • …
First Friday, March 5: New Exhibitions at the Emporium Center
BY ALAN SHERROD It is an inescapable, but often painful truth that hard times are reflected in the arts that we produce. In the last year, our existence has been a churning maelstrom of quiet sobs and heated anguish,…
Wednesday Arts Miscellany: More at the Emporium and Knoxville Museum of Art
Yesterday, we mentioned the Emporium’s National Juried Exhibition of 2021, but there are other notable shows opening there on Friday, February 5, as well. • Dana Moody‘s intriguing architectural-cultural photographic studies: Havana: Behind the Façade (image from the show above)…